Faculty/Staff

Priya Dozier

Priya Dozier

Assistant Professor of Instruction
pdozier@usf.edu
Campus: St. Petersburg
Room: LPH 440
Phone: 727-873-4896
Vita

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Priya D. Dozier is an assistant professor of instruction at the Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance on the USF St. Petersburg campus.

Dozier joined USF as a full-time faculty member in Fall 2019 in the School of Information Systems and Management at the Muma College of Business. Prior to joining USF, Dozier served as vice president of digital solutions and innovation at PSCU, a credit union fintech organization in St. Petersburg, Florida. Dozier joined academia with nearly 20 years of experience in various roles in product management, product development, and business analysis in the financial services industry.

Her research interests include management, innovation, and product development. Through her research, Dozier explores the intersection of technology and decision-making through the lens of individuals, organizations, and technological forces.

Dozier earned a Doctor of Business Administration from the University of South Florida in 2018. Her doctoral dissertation, “Banking on Blockchain: A Grounded Theory Study of the Innovation Evaluation Process,” explored how financial services organizations explored blockchain technology. Dozier earned her MBA from the University of South Florida and her bachelor's degree in management information systems from Florida State University.  

TEACHING

Graduate and undergraduate courses across disciplines and all delivery formats (asynchronous, synchronous, and face-to-face):

  • Management: MAN305 (Principles of Management), MAN4063 (Management Ethics), MAN3240 (Organizational Behavior)
  • Information Systems: ISM6155 (Enterprise Information Systems Management)
  • Finance: FIN4771 (Foundations of Fintech), FIN4774 (Foundations of Fintech), FIN6934 (Blockchain for Financial Services)
  • Entrepreneurship: ENT6606 (New Product Development)
  • General Business: GEB6898 (OMBA Capstone) 

RESEARCH

  • M. L. Green and P. Dozier, "Understanding Human Factors of Cybersecurity: Drivers of Insider Threats," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR), Venice, Italy, 2023, pp. 111-116, doi: 10.1109/CSR57506.2023.10224926. 
  • Dozier, P. (2021). Blockchain use cases in financial services. Muma Business Review, 5(1). 1-4. https://doi.org/10.28945/4823
  • Dozier, Priya and Saunders, Carol, "The Inter-organizational Perspective in Blockchain Adoption within an Ecosystem" (2020). In Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), An Online AIS Conference, June 15-17, 2020. https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2020_rp/38
  • Dozier, P. & Montgomery, T. (2019). Banking on blockchain: An evaluation of innovation decision making. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2019.